Ludovic Travers:
wealthy writer and amateur sleuth, later proprietor of the Broad
Street Detective Agency, along with Scotland Yard Superintendant
George Wharton and later Chief Inspector Jewle, in London, England

Meg Cabot

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Meena Harper:
young soap opera writer who can foresee how people will die, in
New York City

Kenneth Cameron (Gordon Kent)

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General Denton:
expatriate U.S. Civil War veteran and former frontier sheriff turned
novelist, in turn of the 20th century London, England